Scheduling and booking software · Comparison
Acuity Scheduling vs SavvyCal
2 products compared side by side: what you pay for with each one first, then the five access facts, entry prices, recorded plan limits and the bottom line of each review. The evidence note under the table says how each product was checked.
Side by side
| Metric | Acuity Scheduling | SavvyCal |
|---|---|---|
| What you're paying for | Saves engineering timeClient self-booking with payments, intake forms, packages and memberships for a service business, priced per account rather than per staff member. | Easy to adoptScheduling links that are considerate to the person booking, who can overlay their own calendar, with team round robin and collective links on the $10 plan. |
| Overall score | 5.0Best | 4.4 |
| Free option | 7-day free trial | 7-day free trial |
| Card to start | No card needed | –Not measured |
| Getting access | Self-serve | Self-serve |
| Starter priceCheapest paid plan | $16/mo | $10/user/mo |
| Pricing model | Tiered | Per seat |
| Pricing page | Public prices | Public prices |
| Billing unit | Per account, by number of calendars (staff or locations) | Per user per month; the seat count follows organization members |
| Free option | No free plan; 7-day trial, no card (14 days when added to a Squarespace site) | No free plan for booking links (meeting polls are free); 7-day trial per the buy-out page; refund within 30 days |
| Reference scenario (3 hosts, annual) | $27/mo on Standard (up to 6 calendars), computed | $30/mo on Basic ($10 × 3), computed |
| Month-to-month price | $34 on Standard ($20 / $34 / $69 for the three plans) | $12 per user on Basic ($20 Premium) |
| Round robin from | Standard ($27 a month billed annually), with two or more calendars | Basic ($10 per user, billed yearly) |
| Payments and SMS reminders | Stripe, Square, PayPal and Venmo on every plan; text reminders from Standard | Stripe paid bookings on Premium; text reminders not listed |
| SOC 2 / ISO 27001 | Not stated on the pages we read | Not held; the security page says its infrastructure providers hold them |
| HIPAA BAA | Premium ($55), signed in the app | Not offered |
| EU data hosting | Not offered; Squarespace stores data in US data centers | Not offered; hosted in the US (Virginia region) |
| SSO | Not listed | Not listed |
| API and export | Webhooks and CSV export on every plan; API on Premium | API and webhooks on Basic; events export as CSV |
| Bottom line | From its public pages, Acuity Scheduling is built for service businesses: client booking with payments, intake forms and packages at one account price, and a HIPAA BAA on Premium. It lists no routing forms, collective meetings, SSO or audit reports. | From its public pages, SavvyCal is a focused scheduling tool with a considerate booking page and team links on its $10 plan. It lists no SSO, text reminders, routing forms or certifications of its own, which is why it scores lowest here on our indicators. |
Evidence: Acuity Scheduling: facts checked 2026-10-16 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; SavvyCal: facts checked 2026-10-16 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run. Prices in USD as listed, excluding tax. "–" means not recorded.
Entry price
Baseline: each product's cheapest paid plan, per month. Included usage differs, so read the line under each price.
- Acuity SchedulingStarter$16/moBilled annually; $20 month to month; 1 calendar
- Payments and deposits via Stripe, Square, PayPal or Venmo
- Email reminders and confirmations
- Custom client intake forms
- Automatic time zone conversion
- SavvyCalBasic$10/user/moBilled yearly; $12 month to month
- Unlimited links, meeting polls and calendar connections
- Teams with collective, round robin and group links
- Reminders, workflows, CRM and Zapier integrations
- API and webhooks
Prices as listed on each pricing page, in USD per month, excluding tax. Observed: Acuity Scheduling 2026-10-16, SavvyCal 2026-10-16.
Which one fits
- If you need to start today without a sales call
- Acuity SchedulingSelf-serve sign-up, no card needed; the highest score of the 2 self-serve products here (5.0/10).
- If you want to try it without entering a card
- Acuity Scheduling7-day free trial, no card needed; scored 5.0/10.
- Lowest starter price
- SavvyCal$10/user/mo for the Basic (billed yearly) plan.
- Highest overall score
- Acuity Scheduling5.0/10 (Fair). The review shows the score breakdown and the run behind it.
Picked by fixed rules from the table above, not by hand. How we score
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